[DuncanWaring]

Anyone have any ideas on what type(s) of pears store best?

[JRandomFreeper]

I just saw that info on YouTube. Queen Victoria loved pies made with that pear because they kept so well during the winter.

I'll see if I can find it...

/johnny

[MomwithHope]

We always can bosc pears, they seem to be the firmest.

[JRandomFreeper]

Finally found it. Had to listen a bunch of times because they mumble.... And I'm somewhat deef.

It was the black worcester pear. It is/was also known by the name "Warden" pear.

Wiki has a good write up on it, but I don't quote wiki here on FR, per the boss.

It's a cooking pear. I don't know about eating out of hand, but I almost never do that with pears.

Let me know if that helps.

/johnny

[greeneyes]

That I do not know. I’m not even sure what sort of pear trees we planted. We bought a “postage stamp” orchard, and so we got whatever was in that batch of 8 or 10 fruit trees.

We usually just order whatever we like the best, and then figure out how we are going to preserve it later, if we don’t eat it all during the season - happens pretty often with strawberries, that we eat them so quick there’s never many to be processed.

Still waiting on the orchard to produce. Peaches around here only produce once every 4 years or so due to spring freezes, but we hope the dwarf trees will be short enough to cover them.

Alas, the bad thing is hubby planted them too close to the Walnut tree, and survival is iffy.